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Specific Families and Genera => Pleione and Orchidaceae => Topic started by: johanneshoeller on November 21, 2006, 06:38:53 PM

Title: Autumn flowering Pleiones
Post by: johanneshoeller on November 21, 2006, 06:38:53 PM

Now Pleione praecox is full in flower

Regards
Hans
from Austria

Title: Re: Autumn flowering Pleiones
Post by: hadacekf on November 21, 2006, 07:12:25 PM

Hans, great pictures of beautiful plants.  :D Wellcome

Title: Re: Autumn flowering Pleiones
Post by: Luc Gilgemyn on November 22, 2006, 09:29:40 AM

Great shots Hans - beautiful Pleione - as I don't have any autumn flowering P's myself - this helps to fill the gap until next February or so.
Thanks
 :)

Title: Re: Autumn flowering Pleiones
Post by: Paul T on December 01, 2006, 11:27:20 AM

Hmmmmmm.... didn't even know there were Autumn flowering ones.  Do they flower at the end of their growing season, or are they summer deciduous and then flower with new growth in autumn (and keep leaves through winter) similarly to the spring types?

Title: Re: Autumn flowering Pleiones
Post by: johanneshoeller on December 02, 2006, 06:17:38 AM

Paul,
autumn, winter and spring flowering Pleiones have the same growth. The autumn flowering show their flowers at the end of the growth and before the dormant saison in winter. I grow alll in the same substrate and there are no great differences in cultivation.

Hans
Austria

Title: Re: Autumn flowering Pleiones
Post by: Paul T on December 02, 2006, 11:07:39 PM

Hans,

Fascinating.  I take it by the pics that they drop their leaves before they flower?  So the flowers are completely naked with the bulbs, the same as the spring ones?  Thanks very much for the info.  Definitely not something I had heard of before.